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Radio Magic: Hardware Hacked, But New Tech Failed a While (part 4)

2020-07-15T22:17:30Z

Hardware HackingEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $200 shopping cart!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Radio Hacking Making-of: The Video The ...(read more)

BattPackHack #3 : Adding a Case and a TinyDVM

2020-07-14T22:52:38Z

I have now produced a 3D printed case for the battery hack for the protoboard to make it look a bit prettier. It isn't brilliant but after some fettling I managed to get it all to stick together. And, it still works as well, despite some rather rough...(read more)

Modifying a RC Toy Truck using a Raspberry Pi

2020-07-14T01:51:00Z

If you ever run into a scenario when you RC controller stops working or does not connect to the transmitter for some weird reason, and you have tried all the tricks up you sleeve to fix the issue, the best thing to do is to gut most of the component...(read more)

SQRL "Oak" dev board: Installation and Summary

2020-07-13T10:49:12Z

So, last time I managed to get the SQL Acron CLE-215 running whilst powered by an external power supply and connect to it over JTAG. This let me get blinky running but didn't really take advantage of the unusual feature which drew me to the board...(read more)

Converting an old phone to a remote switch

2020-07-12T18:34:02Z

The setup: Ever wondered what to do with your old basic phones? The advent of a smartphone in last decade made all the basic phones obsolete. Even though they had good battery life and decent look they are less when compared ...(read more)

Thermal Imaging with AWS IOT

2020-07-12T07:23:06Z

IntroductionTo provide low cost thermal image solution with Panasonic's AMG8833AMG8833 8x8 IR Grid-Eye detector, ESP32 , AWS IOT and serverless infrastructure. Use case scenarioWild Fire alertSecurity with object detectionObject maintenanc...(read more)

Radio Magic: I Need a Case! (part 3)

2020-07-10T08:10:21Z

Why a Case Now Design Assembling Links to the previous partsPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4Why a Case NowThe idea of this Vintage-Modern-Upcycled-Modular device (wow! So long) is a set of modules connected together designed in a way easy to reproduce,...(read more)

Retired iPhone 7 turned 256gb hard drive \ iPad/10+inch floating car audio media center

2020-07-01T01:22:10Z

I am a 3rd year computer and electronics engineering student, single father of 2 boys so needless too say money is tight. One of the main ways I keep my head above water is phone/device , laptop and pc repair work. So over time I have accumulated my ...(read more)

Knockoff stage lighting

2020-06-28T16:56:00Z

Stage lights are expensive. If it's not a simple par-can, it more than likely has a hefty price tag. Even a simple static LED like the Chauvet COLORado 1 Quad at AUD $760. And then you have your moving "intelligent" lights, like the Martin Rush MH3...(read more)

Professional instrumentation hacking for ham radio purposes

2020-06-27T12:47:44Z

Hello,my idea is to write a software to transform a professonal lab piece of equipment (i.e. signal generator) into a ham radio device.I'm making the first tests, demonstrating it is possibile to transform a RF signal generator into a ham radio b...(read more)

BattPackHack #2 : A Functional Prototype

2020-06-26T16:38:00Z

Hardware HackingEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $200 shopping cart!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Having completed and glued together the bat...(read more)

Pong resurrected

2020-06-21T15:17:00Z

Just finished rebuilding the Pong game. Links to my previous posts: Pong Game Circa 1978 Pong is Alive Started by de-wiring all of the switches. Next I found a couple of proto PCBs of the right size and I printed a mounting pla...(read more)

Radio Magic: Circuits and Some Solution (part 2)

2020-06-20T09:09:00Z

Hardware HackingEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $200 shopping cart!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Synth Circuit Digital Connection Note on...(read more)

BattPackHack #1 : The Battery PowerPack Holder

2020-06-19T12:04:03Z

Hardware HackingEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a $200 shopping cart!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Some time ago I received an Element14 prese...(read more)

SQRL "Oak" dev board: Part 3 schematic reverse engineering

2020-06-17T18:13:00Z

Well, so far (in previous blogs) I have managed to get the board power up and detected by Vivado hardware manager, but that's only part of the way there. Whilst I can upload a bitstream to the FPGA I need to know how to upload a useful bitstream. Th...(read more)